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Westinghouse, Nordion, and PSEG team up to produce Co‑60 in the United States
This past January, Westinghouse Electric Company, Nordion, and PSEG Nuclear formalized agreements to implement newly developed cobalt-60 production technology at Units 1 and 2 of PSEG’s Salem nuclear power plant in New Jersey, with the Co-60 to be supplied to Nordion. Through an ongoing joint initiative, the companies aim to harness U.S. pressurized water reactors to produce a key medical isotope and build the first commercial-scale Co-60 production platform in the United States.
C. S. Caldwell, D. A. Spragg
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 62 | Number 2 | February 1977 | Pages 270-277
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE77-A26962
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Cubic and bicubic piecewise polynomial splines are used to represent the boundaries between phases and the shapes of the phase surfaces in p(u, v), T(u, v), and v(p, h) diagrams. Good accuracy in the region of interest for pressurized water reactor applications is achieved at reasonable cost Furthermore, the continuity of the second derivatives of this method of interpolation results in smoother numerical behavior than does linear interpolation when implemented in computer programs solving differential equations.